"Such momentum benefits from Anhui's decades of technological innovation and intelligent transformation. More and more Anhui-made products are setting sail overseas and benefiting consumers around the world," he said.

　　One of the prime examples is ChangXin Memory Technologies. The Hefei-based memory chip maker said on Sunday that it has begun mass production of its fifth-generation, or G5, DRAM technology platform, which has reached the industry's most advanced manufacturing level.

　　CXMT said that each wafer can now produce over 50 percent more usable memory chips than the previous-generation platform. Its 24GB LPDDR5X mobile memory chips based on the new platform are also in mass production and have been adopted by mainstream Chinese flagship smartphones.

　　LPDDR5X is a type of high-speed, low-power memory chip widely used in premium smartphones, where higher capacity and faster data transfer are increasingly important for AI and other computing-intensive applications.

　　Luo Xiaodong, vice-president of CXMT, said that the company had reduced the half-pitch of the active area in its memory array to 11.95 nanometers, putting CXMT close to the most advanced DRAM manufacturing technologies currently in mass production worldwide. The figure refers to the spacing between key structures inside a memory chip: the smaller the spacing, the more memory cells can be packed onto the same area of silicon.

　　Latest data from the Anhui provincial government showed that during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period, revenue from the province's large industrial companies climbed to 5.9 trillion yuan ($866 billion) from 3.8 trillion yuan, taking the province to fifth place nationwide.